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Progress: Since the country held its first democratic elections in 1994, more than 1  700 clinics and 56 hospitals have been built and the National Health Insurance Bill has been passed. In terms of housing, 88.5% of the population lives in formal housing. Photo: Louise Gubb/Corbis/Getty Images
ANC

ANC’s Mbalula reflects on our hopes, fears

Secretary general Fikile Mbalula considers the party’s three decades in power and its future

  • Fikile Mbalula
8 min read
Russian President Vladimir Putin during his joint press conference with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on September 4, 2023, in Sochi, Russia. Photo by Contributor/Getty Images
ICC

Lula backtracks on Putin’s safety at next year’s G20

The Brazilian president initially said there was “no way” Vladimir Putin would be arrested at the Rio event in 2024

  • Afp
2 min read
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Brazil’s president-elect, celebrates with supporters on Paulista Avenue in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Sunday, Oct. 30, 2022. (Tuane Fernandes/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
ANC

If Brazil’s Lula did it, uBaba Zuma can do it too

The architects of our own Lula Moment in 2007 are silent as the Wenzenists call for the return of Da Zuma

  • Paddy Harper
2 min read
Paulo Whitaker, Reuters
BRAZIL

The most important elections in the Americas is in Brazil

Former president Lula is in the lead in the polls ahead of the first round of elections on 2 October. These elections will be transformative for Brazil and will ramifications…

  • Vijay Prashad
8 min read